Welcome to this year’s second issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Bits from the DPL * Debian France online shop open * Valve games for Debian Members and Maintainers * Debian real-time communication * Other news * Upcoming events * New Debian Contributors * Important […]

The Debian GNU/Linux Project’s technical committee appears to be split down the middle on the question of the default init system for the next release. But the panel is tilting towards a compromise on systemd as the default. It means that the future direction of Linux development will be determined by Red Hat, the company […]

Hello Debian Project News people, Daniel Pocock extended the siprepo code to do federation secured by TLS And the DSA team ingeterate the TURN with the Debian identification system. So now it is possible to recieve calls and make calls to other domains with a @debian.org address. This makes it possible to make voice calls […]

At $dayjob for Collabora, we’ve been working with Valve on SteamOS, which is based on Debian. Valve are keen to contribute back to the community, and I’m discussing a couple of ways that they may be able to do that [0].

Debian is considering between Upstart and systemd – two competing daemons. While Upstart was developed solely by Canonical, systemd was developed by contributors from different distributions (edited, thanks to Jos Poortvliet).

Welcome to this year’s first issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * SteamOS, a game oriented Debian derivative * Mini-DebConf in Phnom Penh * Mini-DebConf in Barcelona * Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament to use Debian for email encryption * An automatic list of Debian […]

We’re pleased to announce the availability of “The Debian Administrator’s Handbook, Debian Wheezy from Discovery to Mastery”. This is the first major update of the book since the first edition (in May 2012).

Yesterday, I have managed to finish up an old pet peeve of mine. I wrote a series of patches to have harness reprocess all packages, which were last checked by an older version of Lintian than the current. It is not completed to the level I would like, but it is good enough for now.

A few days ago, several sources reported that SteamOS, the long-announced game-oriented OS has been released by Valve. Steam is a gaming platform currently available for Ubuntu, and it has been a major reason of advertising for the Ubuntu community. Actually, SteamOS was expected to be built on top of Ubuntu itself.

FOSSASIA [1] is inviting Debian contributors and fans to Phnom Penh, Cambodia from February 28 – March 2, 2014. After previous events in Vietnam and a successful MiniDebconf 2010 in Ho Chi Minh city it is time to bring together some of the awesome Debian folks in the region again and organize another MiniDebConf Phnom […]

Debian Women is proud to announce that it will hold a MiniDebConf in Barcelona on 15-16 March 2014, where Debian enthusiasts from far and wide will gather to talk about the latest Debian changes and the Debian community, as well as to meet new and old friends.

The Debian project is pleased to announce the third update of its stable distribution Debian 7 (codename `wheezy’). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available.

Valve Software has made available images for Steam OS, it’s GNU/Linux based gaming distribution. Valve has also released more information about the operating system. Unlike popular belief Steam OS is not based on Ubuntu; it’s based on Debian 7.1 Wheezy. Steam OS is using Gnome as it’s default desktop environment.

Besides Ubuntu as an OS on my machine, I’m also using Debian GNU/Linux 7 Wheezy for months now. I’m enjoying using this latest stable version of Debian because it really is a stable version. I never encounter a single error while using it. That’s the main reason why I choose to use it for some […]

After several years spent with Fedora I’ve decided to try another Linux distribution. My choice fell on Debian that I need to learn because of my project. The tutorial describes installation of common user applications. It also offers solution to problems I encountered after Debian Wheezy installation. Please have in mind that is written from […]

There are lot of people who do .NET programming and the Linux alternative MONO. For some weird reason MONO is not working on armhf default Debian distribution which we use (as armhf performs better we ignored so far armel).

Hi, some of these bits are a bit outdated but there is no point in hiding this information just because it is old. 1. FOSDEM talk 2. Jabber interview about Debian Med 3. Article about Debian Med 4. Yearly sprint of Debian Med team 5. DebConf 13 in Vaumarcus 6. Codefest of the Open Bioinformatics […]

Fans of the MATE desktop environment, which is a fork of Gnome 2, will be happy to know that MATE is scheduled to be included in the official Debian repositories. Early 2012, it was requested that MATE be included in said repositories, and almost 2 years later, it appears we’re almost there.

Hi, If you are interested in putting forward a bid to host DebConf15 in 2015, please tell us about it on the DebConf team mailing list, debconf-team@lists.debconf.org, then read the information at https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf15 and prepare bid materials there by the end of this calendar year. (There are a couple of probable bids we already heard […]

Hello Everyone, The Debian France association[1] is proud to announce the next Mini-DebConf[2][3]! This year’s event will take place on January 18th and 19th, where Debian enthusiasts from far and wide will gather to talk about the latest Debian changes, the Debian community and meet up new and old friends.